Local industrial company builds capacity

An indigenous enterprise in environmental management, Zeal Environmental Technologies Ltd, has invested in state-of-the-art machinery to handle waste from the Jubilee Oil Field to international standards.

The new machinery further positions the indigenous company with enough capacity and world class standard to treat all industrial oil waste water from activities on Ghana’s oilfields and mining operations, making the facility stand out as the first of its kind in the West African sub-region.

The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr Kweku Ennin, told the GRAPHIC BUSINESS team in Sekondi that the company continued to invest in equipment and personnel training to ensure that it had a system that compared with any such facility across the world to meet the expectations of the highly technical and quality-conscious oil and gas industry.

The company’s simple but effective oily waste water management plant is able to effectively treat waste oily effluent from the country’s offshore oil operators.

The modern process enables the company not only to treat the waste to make them environmentally friendly, it also extracts by products that could be commercially used for other purposes. The treatment brings the water to a level fit for human consumption before it was pumped out into the environment.

The CEO explained that the effluent the company received was usually contaminated with sea water, oil and other agents that made it generate odour, hence “we go the extra mile to invest in other equipment not required to meet the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards so we can improve the quality of the effluent we discharge into the environment.”

To also improve the quality of water separated from the waste oily water, Zeal Environmental had also invested in another technology called the Ozone System to further enhance the quality of water to the it becomes potable.

“Although it is not for drinking as this is an industrial facility, the treated water is so clean that it can be used for watering flowers and lawns. This means they become very environmentally friendly,” he stressed.

Mr Ennin said as a pioneer and industry leader in the company was striving to set higher standards to give confidence to the industry in the country.

“The level of the industry is still unfolding so we are timing our investments in tandem with the growth of the industry, else we will not have the industrial waste to treat. It is a continuous investment,” he explained.

Zeal Environmental currently employs between 80 and 100 persons. All these workers come from the catchment area and with dependency ratio of about 10 people, Zeal is also helping to complement the government’s employment creation efforts.

Zeal also has social responsibility programme where we support the community school and others in the Sekondi-Takoradi area, all in an effort to contribute to the development of the country.

Source: GRAPHIC BUSINESS